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| s.miller |
 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: Console install WBI Fix Pack 4 doesn't install (Linux) |
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Hello All,
I'm trying to upgrade Message Broker 5.0 to Fix Pack 4 from Fix Pack 3 on Linux on Intel (SLES Eight).
History:
FP 3 was installed using X Windows
X Windows was removed when machine was hardened
I have identified a problem with posting HTTP requests which requires FP 4
Only options for install appear to be console or from a response file.
Using instructions for console:
./setuplinuxia32 -console -is:javaconsole
I see:
Searching for JVM...
Preparing JVM...
About 100 '.'s
However I don't see (on this machine):
Select a language to be used for this wizard...
I can verify FP 4 wasn't applied with:
rpm -qa | grep mqsi
Which shows only ... .2 or ... .3 for versions
I verified the JRE installed as IBM 1.3.1
Also tried the second option of using a response file. I edited the example response file to remove 'username_server' and copied the file to the install directory and used the file:
./setuplinuxia32 -options response.opt -silent
The effect is as above - nothing appears to get installed and versions are as above.
Is there something I have overlooked? Is there an alternative way to manually install the files e.g. extract them and manually copy them over - not ideal in a controlled environment but perhaps necessary?
Kind regards,
Simon |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: |
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You could always use X windows remotely.
For example, if you are connecting using ssh, you can configure ssh to tunnel X (I think it's even -X in most implementations of ssh, or perhaps -x). Start a local X windows server, establish your ssh connection, verify that the DISPLAY has been exported properly, there were no issues creating .xauthority in your home, and you should be good to go.
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| s.miller |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: Console install WBI Fix Pack 4 doesn't install (Linux) |
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The hardware stack comprises Linux boxes and a Windows machine for configuration. All the Linux boxes have X Windows removed as part of the hardening process.
Another machine Linux box has been connected to the above and SSH established. The use of a GUI can be demonstrated e.g. SUSE YAST2 function - all OK.
Repeating the install using the GUI method the install fails in the same way e.g. after the 100 '.'s the GUI fails to come up and nothing is installed.
Is it possible to install the Fix Pack manually? Or to replace an executable for a particular APAR?
Kind regards,
Simon |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: |
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It is certainly possible to manually install a FixPack.
It is almost certainly a waste of your time to do so - FixPacks for v5 are *big*, because they have to be cumulative. And I think it would be very complicated to do.
Are you able to run the FP3 installer - at least enough to get the GUI to come up?
This is a stupid question, but it's a common problem - are you sure you got the FP for Message Broker and not the FP for Event Broker?
Can you confirm that the user trying to run the FP has sufficient priviledges on the FP installation directory? (that you haven't copied it off a CD or something so there are lots of read-only directories) Also verify that you have a large amount of free space in /tmp (2GB at least).
You should also probably open a PMR.
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| JT |
| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Try this command:
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| s.miller |
| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: Console install WBI Fix Pack 4 doesn't install (Linux) |
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We will be trying the alternative method for installing the CSD 4 - when I tried this on a test environment it is not completly clean - although the GUI does start up - as it does on the same test environment anyway. The problem is only on Production Brokers.
We will also try CSD 3 to see if its the way the install is done or the environment that's changed.
It is the Message Broker CSD because I have used it in a test environment and the same CD was used in Production. Also the install method was the same - take the tar file and extract files in same way. We will check the free space on /tmp.
We are looking to use CSD 4 for only one particular APAR PQ88742 - not for the Z/OS, but for charset characters > 128 truncation.
Kind regards,
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: |
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You can open a PMR and get a specific eFix for just the APAR you want from the support team.
Or at least, you should be able to.
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